A year ago, they had nowhere to live. Now they’ve won the lottery and are giving back

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One year after being removed from their former residence due to an unexpected renovation, a Nova Scotia couple are reaping the benefits of a lucky lottery ticket — and using the winnings to pay it forward in their community.Bertram and Helen Drover of Lower Sackville, N.S., won $100,000 on an Atlantic Lottery TAG draw on Nov. 6.

Following the immediate shock from winning, the couple decided to use their newfound fortune to assist with combating the challenges being faced by some in their own backyard.“We bought some heat propane tanks, and we took them down to the Cobequid encampment down here for the homeless,” Bertram Drover said in an interview with Global News on Thursday.“Winning the money is great and the feeling in your heart when you win the money is great, but when you do something like that … there’s no other feeling in the world like helping out those folks.”Drover said a series of events on the day he purchased the ticket all played a role in the couple’s decision to give back.After a customer ahead of the Drovers paid for their coffee in the Tim Hortons drive-thru, the couple sat down on a hill that overlooks the encampment in Lower Sackville.“We were drinking our coffee and I said … if we ever won any amount of money, I think I’d like to do something for these folks,” he said.Drover said he read a few days earlier that someone had donated heaters to those living in the nearby encampment, but they didn’t have any propane to operate them. He said the “first thing” that came to his mind after learning that he’d won the money was “I’m going to get propane for those heaters.”The housing crisis issues hit especially close to home for the two, as they found themselves scrambling to find a new apartment just last